April 11, 2009

  • Those Great Ideas

    Ever have those days when you are suddenly hit by an amazing idea for something to write? Like an amazing incredible idea that just leaves you giddy in anticipation of writing it? One of those ideas that you just KNOW will be soo great that the whole world NEES to read it?

    It'll be smart. It'll be clever. It'll be funny. It'll be amazing. You can just SEE it! You just can't stop thinking about. Idea after idea cascades through your mind. You are writing it in your head and you can't STOP. It's going to be sooo damn GOOD! It's brilliant. Genius! You know it's going to be one of the best things you EVER WROTE. You can't wait to see what people have to say about it. You can't wait to AWE your audience with your unstoppable writting prowess!  Now all you have to do is write it.

    And then! And then! 

    Nothing. You can't find the words after all. You're a little distracted by some stupid other aspect of life. Like having to do your taxes or some other BS.. So you say to yourself oh I'll just do it a bit later.

    So maybe you do something else. Maybe you take a nap. You're convinced that when you do do it, it'll be brilliant. You just need a bit of time.

    But then the horror strikes.

    Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

    You can't even REMEMBER it! The whole idea is gone as if it was never there. It's on the TIP of your tongue. But you can't come up with it. The idea, the brilliant idea, is missing. All you remember is the sense of how great it was. How great it would have been. You can remember everything about the experience of having the idea. The tone you were going to write it in, the style you were going to use. You can even remember some of the WORDS you were going to use. You just can't remember the FUCKING IDEA ITSELF! It's horrifying. You want to bang your head against the wall. And if you're like me you do just that. But it doesn't help. It just hurts. Dammit.

    You curse your brain. You curse your fate. you curse God, the Universe and all that is Good and Evil! Why oh why did it happen!?!?

    I WANT MY IDEA BACK!!!!

    But you can't get it back. You just have to wait and wait and hope that one day something random will trigger the memory so you can write it again.  And a little piece of you knows that even if it does, it'll never be as good as it would have been had you only been able to write it when it came to you.

    Such is the curse of the writer.

Comments (9)

  • I've been having that problem for the last two weeks. It sucks. Nothing comes out the way I want it to...

  • Man, that has SO happened to me before. I try if at all possible to jot down key ideas or phrases I know I want to use in it, so I can have something to jog my memory later.

  • Oh my god!  It happened to me today.  I was PISSED.

  • That happens to me all the time. It happened to me today.

  • The Writer's Curse is also known as ADD. That's why I can't update as much as I want. "Oh, I just got this awesome idea!!! I'm gonna go post it right...after I go get some ice cream! What flavor do I want? Ooo, Superman! That's a good flavor. It's got lots of colors. He's a good super hero. Like batman. And Like one_eared_batman on Xanga. Oh! That reminds me! I was gonna right something!!! What was it...?"
    Happens waaaaay too much.

  • I'm SO with you! I couldn't sleep so I wrote down the main idea. I didn't write the other ideas that would follow it because... I was silly! And now, I'm back at square 1. Damnnnnnnnn.

    I hope your ideas come back to you though. Even if it's 3am, wake up and write it down!!!

  • LOL. you'd think eventually we'd learn to write notes as soon as ideas pop into our heads, but we never do. I don't write notes nearly as often as I should.

  • Sorry about your pains.

    I've never had the "forgot my brilliant idea" moments. I usually write all my ideas down. Whether it's some random scrap of paper, back of an envelope, whatever. I sometimes forget I wrote them and find scraps of notes turn up that I had totally forgotten about. So I have a different curse. Illusions of grandeur. I think my ideas are really awesome for a time... then I realize its pretty lame and they become random litter that piles up.

  • i totally know what you mean! i get writers block!

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